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Water-cooled tig torch conversion fail

Morning all,
I have a slight issue that I was hoping this group could help me with. I recently finished converting my syncrowave 200 to a water cooled torch. I went to weld some aluminum for the first time after converting and I cannot get it to weld, seams like I'm not getting any etching action and the weld pool instantly contaminates. Can't add any filler or anything. I swapped to my air cooled torch and it runs perfect. Not sure what ls what's going on. Here's my current set up.

I was thinking since I have the return-water and to-water bolted to the machine that it was grounding out. I unhooked them from the machine with no change. Next I'm going to separate the return and feed/to water from each other and see if that resolves the issue.

I also tried raising the argon pressure too because it's acting like low gas flow or none at all but raising the pressure didn't change a thing. You can clearly hear and feel the argon flow coming out of my gas lense.

Quite l ikely that the torch is hooked up backwards. The current carring conduit is the return line. The torch head is what must be cooled first. Its the other way, the conduit is cooled, however the head gets way hot and trouble happens shortly after.